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The problem is that - at least for me - phone is for ‘fast forwarding’ the boring parts of the day. If that’s the case with you too, then you throw away your life instead of living it.
Get a real hobby. They are great.
If “phone” is your hobby, you need some real hobbies.
Bigger phone maybe?
You don’t understand the issue
i have too many hobbies, so I don’t do any of them and instead just ✨PHONE✨
I’m a huge fan of collecting hobbies. It keeps me curious, and every now and then one sticks pretty hard.
But to keep yourself sane, you also need to accept that you won’t master most hobbies you dabble in. I am a pretty good woodworker. I do some pretty neat 3D printing projects. I’m a decent gamer. I’m fairly good at the shotgun range. I used to be pretty good at racquetball. But I’m not great at any of it.
The only one I got really good at is scuba diving, so I actually picked up a side gig teaching scuba and underwater photography at a university. Underwater photography gets pricey fast, but now I can share the joy of it with students while letting them use my camera gear while writing it all off.
Instead saying your hobby is phone, say: my hobby is collecting dopamine.
That’s everyone hobby, to varying degrees of success.
I’m not a procrastinator, I’m just a temporarily embarrassed polymath.
It means they are enthralled by social media as the algorithm consumes countless hours of their free time.
“Computers” but same.
Used to be, you could say “computers”. You were then branded by your peers as a fucking weirdo but it was a hobby.
Can you fix my printer?
Can you check if I got a virus? My Hotmail keeps emailing viruses to people.
I’ve got this amazing business idea, I’ll be the idea man, you just have to make it
Also branded as “my personal tech support”, true.
Honestly, that’s on them. I don’t do my hobbies for others. I do those for my own pleasure.
And if they ask, I’ll scare them away with deep 40k lore or lifting, just to get back to it.
If Games Workshop asks you to decide who from the existing lore is going to be the next faction to be introduced, who are you picking?
Well, i already imperium’s fanboy, so I’m already having a blast in being catered to.
What’s your favorite faction?
From the moment i understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me.
And yeah, exactly because the heavy augmentation and replacing body parts theme. Iron hands fit that theme rather closely as well. So it is always a toss up between Mechanicus and Iron hands.
The strength and certainty of steel is something to be craved. Good choices.
I love the Iron Hands, because they’re called the Iron Hands, lead by a primarch whose name means Iron Hands, and a flagship called The Fist of Iron. They know what they’re about.
Yeah that has always been rather good wordplay.
“We should catch up sometime”
Ain’t nothing to catch up on homie, I’m boring af and not talking to you about it
You can say “small scale computers”
Embedded small scale computer tactile glass kineticist
“Phone” ok so you don’t know how to explain your online obsession with normies. Here’s a clue, lie. Do you like a sport but don’t really follow it? That’s your hobby. Did you cook food last week? Hobby. Did you drink alcohol in the last week? Do you know the names of the expensive brands of whatever you drank? Hobby.
I like sports (esports), I’m a foodie (frozen pizzas), and I’m into specialty beers (whatever beer is on special this week) :3
Yeah, that is lame and you need to find more hobbies.
My hobbies include:
Books, but when I mention how much I love science fiction, people’s eyes glaze over and they stop listening, even when I try engage discussion by asking what they like to read.
Spiders and insects, but when I mention how much I love spiders, folks have to tell me the story of that time they squished a spider because they were scared of a tiny little critter who is more afraid of them and unable to actually do any damage.
But I’m the weirdo.
What kind of science fiction? What are you reading right now? Who’s your favourite author? What’s your address?
What kind of science fiction?
As a gal who grew up on TNG and DS9 episodes, I absolutely love space ships! Anything with a good galaxy spanning adventure is high on my list to read. I’ve been reading some old Star Trek novels that are always fun times.
Lately I’ve been enjoying scifi romance novels. The local romance bookstore separates scifi/fantasy romance from the contemporary stuff making it easier to find.
What are you reading right now?
Currently reading Chaos Vector 2nd book of The Protectorate trilogy by Megan E. O’Keefe. I picked the first one up at the local book crawl a few years ago because the cover looked really cool. I try to read as little as I can about a book before I start it, I even avoid back cover blurbs or at least only skim the first 2-3 sentences. That’s how I picked this one.
Who’s your favourite author?
Scifi: James SA Corey, John Scalzi, and Jessie Mihalik are my current top 3 authors. I also enjoy some Huxley, Bradbury, Andy Weir
Less scifi, but sometimes adjacentish: Blake Crouch, Kit Rocha, Philip Pullman, Ken Liu
What’s your address?
My address is:
123456 Where a Bunch of Cool Spiders Live Court
Big Bug City, ADOGN 00001
Brilliant, thank you! I’m always on the lookout for new SF books and authors. I’ll check out your recommendations!
Yes these are replies we need. What books do you read, name them, I am starved for good sci-fi.
Sharing my 2025 reading list for the curious (plenty of scifi)
Oh shoot, I’d misremembered Charles Sheffield’s Heritage series as being by Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven. Huge impossible megastructures in space left behind by unknowable beings who may just have had a goofy sense of humor.
Higher Education and the rest of that series hit me at just the right age.
You’re talking to the wrong people: I fuckin love sci fi and fantasy books and talk to a ton of other people who do as well. Especially right now with the popularity of PHM and stuff, easy to translate that to other sci fi discussion.
I don’t love spiders, but I don’t hate them either, and most people like learning cool animal/insect facts, but that’s gonna be a little harder of a sell I suppose. Still, you’ll find those people too, it just might be a little harder.
Can’t stand spiders (beyond like Daddy Long Legs, I don’t squish spiders, but also keep them away from me lol) but I feel you, “walking through the woods looking for cool bugs and mushrooms and lizards and shit” usually earns me odd looks until I mention “I also smoke weed there.”
Actually that’s a big reason I finally bought a camera I’d been eyeing but couldn’t justify the cost, so I would look less weird to anyone I tell my hobbies or happen to pass near a trail. I debated on a bear suit (jk lol), settled on a purpose that is seen as “normal” instead. More expensive but what can ya do I don’t wanna look creepy or deal with judgement from people who only “phone” and think lizards are weird. Good cover for the cops too, since my usual cover is illegal still.
Wish I’d gotten one years ago though, the phone robbed me of any will to take photos and somehow getting the camera brought it back, maybe it’s just nostalgia from the advent of Digital Photography but whatever it is I’m glad I found it again.
Walking through the woods is awesome, just phrase it that you love nature and the outdoors, boom done. I love hiking, and not in small part because of the cool shit you find and to smoke weed out in nature.
Does it count as hiking without significant elevation? I always thought that was a defining factor but that would simplify things, until I meet a real hiker lmao then I’d be outclassed I’m sure. We’ve got hills but overall it’s fairly flat around here, it’s not like Colorado lol! Not that I’d be opposed to real hiking (I’d love to) it’s just not feasible to do regularly for me.
But yeah I do phrase it as liking nature, but that only “works” when you meet others who do too, for people who just Playstation all day it’s still “weird.” Meanwhile I totally understand gaming even if I don’t do it much anymore, rude! Lol, throwing a camera in the mix makes even those people “get” it so far ime.
Sure! I’ve been on hikes with little elevation change, if it’s not on a paved pathway it’s hiking in my book! Now, the best hikes definitely have some elevation bc those views make everything worth it (for me at least), but that’s not every hike. Sometimes you just need to be out in the trees.
And dawg, those are the weirdos. We’re meant to be out in nature, not cooped up inside all the time. I love gaming too, but it can’t be all you do especially when the sun is shining.
Shit, I’m a hiker and didn’t even know it! I can work with that lol. Sometimes there is a paved path at the location though, but you have to go off the path to see anything cool.
Tbh I can understand the gamers too, it is fun to do and with the online factor it can be social, more so than the woods ime tbh. Some games are basically a book you can play, like Morrowind. I think it’d probably be good for them to get out yeah but I’m not gonna judge them too hard, and that’s all I ask in return.
Still glad I got the camera though, not just because it helps cut the awkwardness but also it is just fun taking pics of cool shit and cute cats, the “not being judged” part is just a bonus really.
I love that you got a camera to cover your weed smoking nature hikes. I was gifted a gadget that attaches to my phone recently, it came with a macro lens so I’ve been using that to take more big pictures. I was considering getting a camera with macro lens before I received that, but I may still get one. What camera do you have?
I love stoned walks and I also do those as frequently as I can. What is your favorite thing you like to take pictures of?
Lol it definitely helps! Cops just think I’m a nerd, and I am but I’m a nerd with illegal drugs ^the ^horror!
That’s awesome, I still need a macro lens myself, and a telephoto, but it’s so much money I’m gonna have to save up for them. That’s ok though because I’m still learning how to really use it with the lens I have lol. I got a Fujifilm X-T4 with an 18-55mm 1.2-4f lens, got it used from KEH (online retailer, new iirc and used) to save a few bucks since I don’t have Facebook Marketplace.
I like taking pictures of any animal I can get a good shot of and any cool mushrooms or flowers. I’m limited so far in that I can’t get super close ups without the macro or telephoto lenses, but I haven’t hit the lottery yet haha. Mostly lizards, snakes, turtles, and my/friend’s pets lol.
I also used to write graffiti until the block got too hot,(I never said that) so I also like a bit of “urbex” as they call it as well, or as I call it “trespassing around looking for good graff.” I’m also trying to figure out a good spot near me to “bench,” which is just railfanning for graffiti writers, waiting for trains to photo (looking for the graff on the freight cars, the railfans like the engines.) There’s tracks 3min from my door but idk if they’re rolling slow enough and I only hear them pass by at night, I need sunlight!Just about the only thing I don’t like photographing is people, mostly because idk how to and people are always “let me see, oh I don’t like that one take another” and it becomes a whole thing. I’d like to find someone willing to help me practice but also feel creepy trying to ask, so I’ll wait until that opportunity knocks, it will I’m sure.
Try telling people you’re into books, but you prefer non-fiction. I always get the response, “What, like, biographies?”
No, I mean books about psychology, Earth science, art, history, or any of the many other books I can learn from. It’s wild how many people seem to forget such books even exist.
Though I will read a good biography. I’m currently reading Fortunate Son, an autobiography by John Fogerty. But biographies are far from the only non-fiction books out there.
I know exactly what you are talking about. I don’t read a lot of nonfiction but if I mention that I read in general, biographies are usually the first thing people ask about.
I’m going to sound like I’m hating on biographies, but I’m absolutely not. Many biographies have great importance. But…I feel like a lot of people read biographies because they are a form of gossip and people like gossip. In my experience, people who only read biographies also read celebrity gossip.
Do you have any earth science recommendations for someone who enjoys science in general? I’ve always liked biology and all of its disciplines.
Information acquisition
Memetic analysis
I evaluate apps and social media systems.
Not cool but “current affairs analyst”
